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Jerzy Janowicz says “I am strange, really.” He should, therefore, feel right
at home today, on Centre Court at Wimbledon, a place where so many strange
things have happened these past 12 days. The young man who dreamt he would
play like Pete Sampras has a chance to blow a Sampras-like hole in British
ambitions.

The first player that the 22-year-old Janowicz tackled at this year’s
Wimbledon was Kyle Edmund, who gave as much as he could as the home nation’s
leading junior. Edmund has returned to that section of the Championships,
and from a field that included seven local